Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s3.60
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s3.60
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⁴ *Ind. Ant.*, 1919, p. 69. *Cf.* Hultzsch, *Aśoka*, 10; *IHQ*, 1925, 387. Other scholars, however, identify the Pitinikas with the Paiṭhānakas or natives of Paiṭhaṇ, and some go so far as to suggest that they are the ancestors of the Sātavāhana rulers of Paiṭhaṇ. See Woolner, *Aśoka Text and Glossary*, II, 113; also JRAS., 1923, 92. *Cf.* Barua, *Old Brāhmī Ins.*, p. 211.